Bel Group and Dassault Systèmes have solid a long-term partnership aimed toward accelerating the transition of the meals business towards a extra sustainable mannequin. The collaboration is about to reshape the way forward for meals by boosting the business’s digital transformation and increasing revolutionary breakthroughs. Moreover, the digitalisation of the end-to-end worth chain, enhanced by synthetic intelligence, guarantees transformative, sustainable disruptions and goals to empower staff.
Leveraging Bel Group’s experience in producing well-known manufacturers equivalent to The Laughing Cow, Babybel, and GoGoSqueez, and mixing it with Dassault Systèmes’ superior scientific and technological capabilities, the deal is anticipated to pioneer next-generation business resolution experiences for the meals and beverage sector. Additionally, the alliance marks a major step in the direction of a extra sustainable and technologically superior meals business.
“Meals transition in the direction of a extra sustainable mannequin wants disruptive gamers and actions within the decade to come back. By this distinctive and long-term partnership, we need to pioneer new options and speed up our transformation,” Cécile Béliot, CEO of Bel Group, stated in a media assertion. “The joint capabilities of our two teams, sharing the identical imaginative and prescient, will empower our groups to shift in the direction of ‘augmented R&D’ by way of AI, and to reshape our manufacturing and product administration processes for the way forward for meals.”
“Cécile Béliot and I share the identical imaginative and prescient: the way forward for well being will depend on the way forward for vitamin,” stated Bernard Charlès, government chairman of Dassault Systèmes. “Our partnership with Bel Group can be a game-changer within the essential meals business. Collectively, we are able to additional its mission to supply more healthy, creative meals decisions which are produced extra sustainably. Because of modelling, simulation, information science and generative AI, we are able to think about and create novel connections and important economic system levers between well being, prevention, and reasonably priced and sustainable vitamin.”
Charlès added, “Our scientific and technological strategy permits business to handle the most important challenges dealing with customers, sufferers and residents at this time. We’ve proven how digital worlds open up new horizons in therapeutic growth. Now, we are able to apply this strategy to Bel Group’s enterprise and drive true disruption that makes it the meals tech firm of reference.”
The problem of sustainably feeding a worldwide inhabitants of 10 billion folks in 2050 has propelled the necessity for revolutionary meals applied sciences and disruptive methods of effectively growing and manufacturing wholesome and sustainable meals in a extremely regulated business.
Bel Group will deploy Dassault Systèmes’ ‘Excellent Manufacturing’ business resolution expertise primarily based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to enhance the effectivity and sustainability of its manufacturing operations at 11 vegetation worldwide. Key parts of this transformation are manufacturing operations administration (MOM), meals and supplies sciences, AI and product lifecycle administration (PLM).
With MOM, Bel Group will proceed to empower its staff by way of digital transformation, to make its manufacturing extra environment friendly and conscious of market calls for whereas optimising stock ranges and consumption of uncooked supplies. Bel Group will have the ability to produce extra sustainably, with constant high quality, in any location.
With AI, Bel Group can repeatedly adapt to client wants with sustainable growth and breakthrough innovation, by analysing thousands and thousands of knowledge factors and utilizing machine studying for augmented merchandise and packs, whereas offering Dassault Systèmes with complete insights into the meals business. This may scale back time-to-market, optimise formulation, scale back industrial trials, speed up product growth, and improve product efficiency.
With PLM, one collaborative surroundings will join folks, processes and information, offering everybody concerned with entry to the best info, on the proper time. This may facilitate transversal collaboration and decision-making – from a product’s ideation to its launch available on the market – and simplify enterprise actions.